droit de seigneur

"In Western cultures it would be called the 'droit de seigneur.' "

The droit de seigneur accounts for many anomalies of birth.

In Western Europe, the term was "droit de seigneur."

Just because my mother is going to work for you it doesn't give you droit de seigneur!'

The first child was often believed to be the offspring of a god, who had impregnated the mother in an act of droit de seigneur.

He also wrote at least five operas with a possible sixth opera, Le droit de seigneur, disputed among music scholars.

"Droit de Seigneur"

Droit de seigneur was alive and kicking in the Elephant and Castle that night.

You see,' Magrat blushed, 'I looked up droit de seigneur.

But I can assure you that I don't exercise some kind of twentieth-century droit de seigneur over them for the privilege.

Technomeroticratic droit de seigneur.

According to local legend, "Knight Kalebuz," as he was known, frequently exercised the right of droit de seigneur.

The great choreographer ruled the New York City Ballet as a fiefdom, with the droit de seigneur among his privileges.

"Droit de Seigneur" (collected in The Haunted Jester, 1931)

Including the droit de seigneur, and the right to grab any churl woman and seduce her, or rape her if she's not seduceable.

Clodio too gives up on his quest for Zenocia, and also renounces his commitment to droit de seigneur.

This tyrant attempted to rape a young commoner (often specified as a miller's daughter) on the eve of her wedding, supposedly exercising the droit de seigneur.

If it wasn't for the engine of her ambition he'd be just another local lord, with nothing much to do but hunt, drink and exercise his droit de seigneur.

Count Clodio is an Italian governor who claims the traditional right of droit de seigneur; he is also the suitor of Zenocia.

"That 'droit de seigneur' White House tradition of serial infidelity, as established by John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, may be as gross as it is foolish.

For the young women of Uruk this oppression takes the form of a droit de seigneur - or "lord's right" to sleep with newly married brides on their wedding night.

It has been many years WHITE STONE DAY since the nobility enjoyed droit de seigneur.

They were the unfortunates who paid host to the YF annual convention three days of pillaging the like of which has not been seen since this lot last had droit de seigneur.

Lex primae noctis: Droit de seigneur, literally "the law of the first night", the entitlement of a lord to go to bed with a serf's wife on her wedding night.

Whatever the truth, we can be sure that the man who planned to be France's president rampaged out of the hotel bathroom with only a droit de seigneur to cover his Tour Eiffel.